Photograph from Carol Mitchell on Flickr I grew up in Kansas City, a city that some folks here in my current place of residence view as hicksville. (It's not.) So I love what Fat City blogger Owen Morris has to say about an Overland Park, Kansas, man whose neighbors are giving him (chicken)s**t about his chicken coop: "This means Kansas City is on the cutting edge, not stuck in the rural past."...
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Photograph from TheJosephBoys on Flickr Barbecue has inspired all sorts of mania, but has it gone too far when a modern dance company bases a piece on the iconic American food? In mid May, dance students at the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company in Kansas City will be performing the Gates B-B-Que Suite, inspired by Gates Bar-B-Q and Kansas City jazz: The piece is described as a "loving and playful look" at the tradition of Kansas City barbeque. Set in a barbeque restaurant, the choreography is intended to capture the "microcosm of society" in dance as people socialize and eat this favorite Kansas City cuisine. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on May 14 and at 8 p.m. on May...
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That's 1300 percent of the check. Eric Hawthorne, a pre-med student and single father of one, has no idea why the couple he waited on left it. And, no, it wasn't a mistake. Here's the video. [via MenuPages Philly]...
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The barbecue contest at
the American Royal in Kansas City essentially comprises two competitions that bring in a total of about 500 meat-smoking teams. Serious Eats walked the 20 acres of smokin' action on Saturday and came back with this photo gallery. Dig in!
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Serious Eats is proud to bring you, through special arrangement, six tasty excerpts from
Smokestack Lightning, a Day in the Life of Barbecue. The movie, from filmmakers and serious eaters Scott Stohler and David Bransten, follows ten subjects from five different states, exploring "the history and tradition of this food from its rural beginnings to its present day incarnation in large-scale commercial organizations."
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For this week's roundup, we asked our friends Jane and Michael Stern over at
Roadfood.com to name some of their fried-chicken picks. And the chicken at these joints comes with a heaping side order of charm.
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Serious Eats's Adam Kuban revisits a handful of the barbecue joints he grew up around in Kansas City. On the menu: pulled pork at
LC's, ribs at
Oklahoma Joe's, and burnt ends at
Arthur Bryant's (pictured above).
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From back the alleys off Beale Street in Memphis to the cattle yards of Kansas City, Smokestack Lightning takes a look at urban 'cue.
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In this episode of Smokestack Lightning, veteran pit masters talk about barbecue with regard to race.
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